Sora: What do you think keeps me awake? I love summer! Smile I got a job! Picking blueberries! I'm finally getting a tan, and at night I get to write! Now to give you people a good old dose of fluff, here it is! My first ever fluff chapter! Oh, and Warrior of Darkness beta'd this chapter! Give him a hand of applause, people!
Chapter eight: The Dare and the Date.
It was the lunch period at the school the Tamers went to. It meant much chaos, much yelling, and a whole lot of the boys daring each other. But that day, something different was to be dared. After that day, everything would be different. That day Davis dared his cousin, Takato, to do something totally unexpected. He dared him to go ask Rika, the Ice Queen, out on a date, something that no one else had ever had the guts to do.
Over at the table where the girls had went to escape the idiot boys and their dares, Rika was dared to do something as well. That dare was to go out on a date with Takato. What neither of them knew was that their friends had a meeting that morning on the way to school and had formed a plan. A plan to get the two of them together. They knew that the only way to get the two stubborn idiots together was to dare them. They knew that the two would never back down from a dare, least they lose face.
So Rika got up from her table, and Takato got up from his. They walked towards each others tables, their heads down, least the other see the blush staining their cheeks. Takato saw a pair of shoes enter his vision of the floor. He looked up, his eyes meeting Rika's. Takato soon looked back down, finding Rika's shoes very interesting as he blushed even deeper.
"Um. Rika? I have something to ask you." He murmured, still looking down. One of Rika's eyebrows arched upwards as she wondered how he would have something to ask her when she had something to ask him.
"Yeah, Takato?" She muttered, also looking down. The two's friends held their breaths, until Davis' eyes widen as he thought of a problem in the plan. Both of them had been dared to ask each other, they probably would find it suspicious. Davis got up and got out of there to save his own butt.
"Um. W-would you like to go out with me t-tonight?" He asked, glad that his face was down so that she couldn't see his blush. Rika's eyes widen as she wondered how he had asked her the question she was going to ask him. Finally it hit her. Their friends were trying to set them up. She would play their game and turn it against them, while getting a date. Perfect.
"Okay. Hey, Takato, could I talk to you for a second?" She asked him, her eyes motioning toward the door. He got the hint and nodded. They left the room and stopped out in the hall.
"What is it, Rika?" He asked her, wondering if she was gonna hit him or something.
"Were you dared to ask me out?" She asked him, watching his face carefully. His eyes widened and finally he nodded, knowing that if he lied to her and she found out, he would be one dead boy.
"Yeah, I was. Look, Rika, you don't have to go with me." He muttered, his face once more studying the floor.
"Nah, it's okay. Look, I was dared to ask you out. I think that the others are trying to set us up." She muttered, looking either way to make sure that they weren't being spied on. Takato's eyebrows came together with an audible snap as his temper started to rise.
"What should we do?" He asked her, trying to not start cursing up a storm. Rika, to his surprise, smirked.
"I've got a plan." She muttered, those words sending shivers down his back. She leaned in and started to fill him in on her plan.
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Takato had gotten all of his money out and was wondering where he could take Rika. He knew that it would have to be cheap. Davis poked his head into Takato's room and watched his cousin. He knew that the two had figured out the plot and was gonna get his butt out of the fire.
"You two figured it out, didn't you?" He asked Takato, leaning against the doorframe. Takato looked up sharply.
"Figured out what?" Takato asked him, trying to look innocent. Davis snorted at this, knowing full well that his cousin was anything but innocent.
"Look, I know you two have figured it out. Why those other idiots haven't, I don't know. Also, I know that you are planning on getting back at us. If you leave me out of it, I'll help you get back at them. You just gotta keep Rika away from me." Davis told him, hoping his cousin would do it. He really didn't want Rika mad at him, who knew what that girl could do to people. Takato pondered his cousin's words and soon stuck out his hand.
"Deal!"
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After Takato had taken all the money Davis had, he said it was part of Davis helping him, he had gone to pick up Rika. He watched the sides of the road as he walked, looking in the places Davis had told him the others would be hiding. They were there, proving that Davis could be trusted. He knocked on Rika's door and waited. He could hear her telling her mother that she was going out for a while.
Takato looked up and watched her come out. He motioned her closer so that he could tell her of Davis' truce.
"Davis squealed on the others." Takato muttered to Rika as he put his arm around her shoulder. Rika tried not to jump at this.
"Really? That's good. What did he tell you?" She muttered, know that the others were probably spying on them.
"He told me who was to be spying on us, where they're hiding at, and that he would help us in anyway possible just as long as we didn't kill him. I made the deal. Is that okay?" He whispered to her, watching the shadows.
"Your cousin certainly has his priorities straight." She whispered back, "Why are we stopping here?" She asked him as they stopped in front of a pizza place. Takato got a sheepish smile as he explained that this was the most he could afford on his limited allowance.
"Okay, I understand." She muttered to him as they entered.
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Sora: Well, people it looks like this chapter is not over yet. It shall be continued in the next one.
CR: I hope you know, you write too fast.
Sora: It just allows me to write the chapters faster and update more. Come on, review more! It's your reviews that make me go.
